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A Short History of Women's Rights, From the Days of Augustus to the Present Time. With Special Reference to England and the United States, Eugene A. Hecker (1914) [168] La Rosa Muerta, Aurora Cáceres (1914) [169] To the Women of Kooyong, Vida Goldstein (1914) [170] Are Women People? A Book of Rhymes for Suffrage Times, Alice Duer Miller (1915 ...
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption (2014) is a memoir by American attorney Bryan Stevenson that documents his career defending disadvantaged clients. The book, focusing on injustices in the United States judicial system, alternates chapters between documenting Stevenson's efforts to overturn the wrongful conviction of Walter McMillian and his work on other cases, including children ...
Hope & Redemption: The Lena Baker Story is a 2008 historical film. It is an adaptation of the book by Lela Bond Phillips, which chronicles the life and death of Lena Baker, an African-American woman in Georgia who was convicted in 1945 of capital murder and was the only woman to be executed by electric chair. She was posthumously pardoned by ...
The story is inspired by the Book of Hosea from the Bible, and its central theme is the redeeming love of God towards sinners. By 2020, the novel had sold over three million copies worldwide since its publication in 1991, and was translated into 30 languages. [ 1 ]
Pages in category "Female characters in literature" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 457 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The book serves as her formal response to Jean de Meun's popular Roman de la Rose. [2] Pizan combats Meun's statements about women by creating an allegorical city of ladies. She defends women by collecting a wide array of famous women throughout history. These women are "housed" in the City of Ladies, which is actually the book.
The Book of Night Women is a 2009 novel by Jamaican author Marlon James. The book was first published in hardback on February 19, 2009, by Riverhead Books . The story follows Lilith, a young woman born into slavery, who challenges the boundaries of what is expected of her.
Mary Rowlandson, née White, later Mary Talcott (c. 1637 – January 5, 1711), was a colonial American woman who was captured by Native Americans [1] [2] in 1676 during King Philip's War and held for 11 weeks before being ransomed.